Horrible Histories
The passing of the Witchcraft Act 1563 made witchcraft, or consulting with witches, capital crimes. The first trial under the new act was the North Berwick witch trials, beginning in 1590, in which King James VI played a major part as "victim" and investigator.
Image shows what remains of St Andrew's chapel, North Berwick, site of that infamous 'gathering'
#scotland #history #witch #witchcraft #wild #trial #king #madness #injustice #Berwick
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Calgary company at centre of daycare E. coli outbreak pleads guilty to bylaw offences
The Calgary company at the centre of an E. coli outbreak at several daycares across the city in 2023 has pleaded guilty to bylaw offences while charges against its directors were dropped Thursday.
#lawsuit #health #trial #outbreak #Calgary #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/e-coli-outbreak-daycare-fueling-minds-trial-1.7516710?cmp=rss
Calgary company at centre of daycare E. coli outbreak pleads guilty to bylaw offences
The Calgary company at the centre of an E. coli outbreak at several daycares across the city in 2023 has pleaded guilty to bylaw offences while charges against its directors were dropped Thursday.
#lawsuit #health #trial #outbreak #Calgary #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/e-coli-outbreak-daycare-fueling-minds-trial-1.7516710?cmp=rss
Prosecutors opening Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's rape and sexual assault retrial described Wednesday how he ignored his victims' pleas to stop and abused his position to make them "feel small." The trial, which began with jury selection last week, will force survivors who helped spark the "MeToo" movement to testify against Weinstein once more. FRANCE 24's Jessica Le Masurier reports from New York.
#Weinstein #rape #trial
Ex-budget deputy asks court for 6-week trip to Greece before bribery trial https://www.byteseu.com/945991/ #bribery #Greece #trial
What every #despot needs is an engine to deal with their enemies, be it through #criminal #law or defenestration.
For either to work you basically need to have the entire #judiciary under your thumb and be able to define rights as you go.
If #rights are not guaranteed, #RuleOfLaw is not an obstacle. This means that having variable rights instead of #InalianableRights is the same as having no rights.
#Trump Slams #SCOTUS, Says #America ‘Cannot Give Everyone a #Trial’
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-supreme-court-immigrants-trial-due-process-1235322264/
https://www.europesays.com/2006417/ Dozens on trial in Turkey after protests over Istanbul Mayor’s arrest | World News #arrests #CorruptionCharges #DemocraticRights #EkremImamoglu #Istanbul #journalists #JudicialIndependence #OppositionMayor #PoliticalFreedoms #protests #RecepTayyipErdogan #trial #Turkey #turkiye #UniversityStudents
https://www.europesays.com/fr/29951/ Quand l’Antiquité s’est-elle terminée ? – La Libre #AccusedBox #BlackAndWhitePicture #Books #Crime #CriminalCourt #defendant #Divertissement #doctor #Entertainment #FR #France #horizontal #Justice #lawyer #Livres #murder #SerialKiller #suitcase #trial
#USSR #Justice #Navalny #trial If it looks like a show trial, sounds like a show trial it is a show trial.
https://www.euronews.com/2025/04/15/four-journalists-accused-of-working-for-kremlin-foe-navalny-convicted-of-extremism?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
bne IntelliNews – South Korea’s ex-president Yoon denies insurrection charges in first court appearance https://www.byteseu.com/922931/ #BNO #Politics #SouthKorea #Southkorea #trial
https://www.europesays.com/1996691/ bne IntelliNews – South Korea’s ex-president Yoon denies insurrection charges in first court appearance #bno #Politics #SouthKorea #SouthKorea #trial
https://www.europesays.com/1995975/ South Korea’s ex-president Yoon Suk Yoel is on trial for rebellion. Here’s what you need to know #court #rebellion #seoul #SouthKorea #trial #YoonSukYeol
A special tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine in the Hague, the Netherlands, will not try Russian President Vladimir Putin in absentia as long he remains leader. Read more from @euronews
https://flip.it/X7iyyL
#Putin #Hague #WarCrimes #Ukraine #Netherlands #Trial
Judges who convicted Marine Le Pen on embezzlement charges and banned the far-right politician from public office for five years have faced death threats since the sentencing earlier this week. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Andrew Smith, lecturer in liberal arts at Queen Mary, University of London. He says that the ramping up of rhetoric against the judiciary is particularly dangerous and 'it reeks of 1934'.
#MarineLePen #France #trial
